And from that point, any time I used a laptop which wasn’t made by Apple (or even the ones which were made by Apple but were stuck in the barbaric ages preceding the inclusion of the glass multitouch pad, where its invention might have produced a scene like this), I felt thoroughly disgusted.įlipping through the Chromium OS design papers, there is one page dedicated specifically to cool multitouch gestures which could be used. They just seemed so natural and so beautiful that I sort of felt that that was like the epitome of design or HCI perfection.

I really fell in love with the Macbook multitouch gestures, almost at first sight. But of course, we don’t live in a place where apps are perfectly idealized and either way, Apple has plenty of nice pretty pictures of people swiping fingers to the right. It makes hardware more useful, and in its idealized form, should have no interface. There is, however a tad bit of difficulty representing the function of it in pictures because really, it doesn’t have a big UI. Anyway, this is as appropriate a time as any to formally announce it to my probably remarkably small blog readership. But I was using my Chromebook and I somehow felt a vague longing for some kind of multitouch gesture, and remembered that I had made this little extension (which I had disabled for some reason). Part of the reason was that the early reviews didn’t quite pan out, in large part due to not working. Here’s an extension which I actually released some time back, but never got around to writing a blog post for. If you want to contact me or read obnoxiously nostalgic autobiographical trivia, check out the about section. This is my little corner of the internet, where I talk about random projects and ideas and stuff. I’m Kevin Kwok, and I’m currently a junior at MIT,Īnd this is my obligatory online presence or whatever.

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